Audiobooks Like The Sun Down Motel

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Brittany Pressley and Kirsten Potter trade narration across this dual-timeline gothic thriller — Pressley handling one woman's investigation in the present, Potter reaching back to the haunted motel of the 1980s — and the effect is of two voices slowly closing in on the same terrible secret from different directions. The atmospheric horror quality relies on what each narrator withholds as much as what she reveals. All ten picks are narrated by Pressley, so if her particular quality of controlled unease worked for you in this, you're hearing that same instrument applied to different mysteries.

10 audiobooks for fans of The Sun Down Motel

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    Little Secrets

    by Jennifer Hillier

    Narrated by Kirsten Potter

    ★ 4.61 ABR Score (229.1K ratings)
    ★ 4.21 Goodreads (220.8K) ★ 4.66 Audible (8.3K)
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    Marin's desperate hunt for her kidnapped son's truth gets psychological depth through Kirsten Potter's portrayal of a mother's breaking point.

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    A Minute to Midnight

    Atlee Pine • Book 2

    by David Baldacci

    Narrated by Brittany Pressley, Kyf Brewer

    ★ 4.56 ABR Score (65.7K ratings)
    ★ 4.22 Goodreads (56.9K) ★ 4.64 Audible (8.8K)
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    When You See Me

    A D.D. Warren and Flora Dane Novel • Book 11

    by Lisa Gardner

    Narrated by Kirsten Potter

    ★ 4.55 ABR Score (44.0K ratings)
    ★ 4.24 Goodreads (39.7K) ★ 4.67 Audible (4.3K)
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    A Killer's Mind

    Zoe Bentley Mystery • Book 1

    by Mike Omer

    Narrated by Brittany Pressley

    ★ 4.55 ABR Score (77.1K ratings)
    ★ 4.22 Goodreads (63.7K) ★ 4.58 Audible (13.3K)
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    When forensic psychologist Zoe Bentley investigates three embalmed Chicago women posed as if alive, the FBI's darkest case gets personal fast. Brittany Pressley captures both Zoe's analytical mind and growing dread perfectly.

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    Local Woman Missing

    by Mary Kubica

    Narrated by Brittany Pressley, Jennifer Jill Araya, Gary Tiedemann, Jesse Vilinsky

    ★ 4.53 ABR Score (825.8K ratings)
    ★ 4.11 Goodreads (790.1K) ★ 4.46 Audible (35.7K)
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    Three females vanish from a suburban neighborhood, then one reappears eleven years later with shocking revelations. The ensemble cast handles multiple perspectives across time with gripping intensity.

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    Live to Tell

    Detective D.D. Warren • Book 4

    by Lisa Gardner

    Narrated by Kirsten Potter, Rebecca Lowman, Ann Marie Lee

    ★ 4.42 ABR Score (51.1K ratings)
    ★ 4.18 Goodreads (47.1K) ★ 4.51 Audible (4.0K)
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    Three narrators handle different perspectives as Detective D.D. Warren investigates a family massacre while a psychiatric nurse faces her own dangerous patient crisis in parallel storylines.

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    Find Her

    Detective D.D. Warren • Book 9

    by Lisa Gardner

    Narrated by Kirsten Potter

    ★ 4.42 ABR Score (75.0K ratings)
    ★ 4.16 Goodreads (62.1K) ★ 4.43 Audible (13.0K)
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    Flora Dane survived 472 days of captivity and now hunts predators herself, creating a chilling cat-and-mouse thriller. Potter's performance captures Flora's transformation from victim to vigilante with unsettling intensity.

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    All Good People Here

    by Ashley Flowers, Alex Kiester

    Narrated by Brittany Pressley, Karissa Vacker, Ashley Flowers

    ★ 4.40 ABR Score (371.5K ratings)
    ★ 3.82 Goodreads (342.8K) ★ 4.5 Audible (28.8K)
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    Crime Junkie host Ashley Flowers crafts a journalist's obsession with two unsolved murders twenty years apart in small-town Indiana, with multiple narrators heightening the investigation's intensity.

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    Catch Me

    Detective D.D. Warren • Book 6

    by Lisa Gardner

    Narrated by Kirsten Potter

    ★ 4.40 ABR Score (50.6K ratings)
    ★ 4.2 Goodreads (44.4K) ★ 4.44 Audible (6.2K)
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    Charlene Grant counts down her final four days, convinced she'll be the next victim in a pattern of murders targeting her childhood friends.

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    Fear Nothing

    Detective D.D. Warren • Book 8

    by Lisa Gardner

    Narrated by Kirsten Potter

    ★ 4.40 ABR Score (36.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.14 Goodreads (32.9K) ★ 4.52 Audible (3.9K)
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    Detective D.D. Warren hunts a serial killer who leaves red roses and champagne with his victims, but this case becomes dangerously personal when she realizes she's also being hunted.

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